From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 27 18:56:49 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ADB6106567A for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:56:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (marcuscom-pt.tunnel.tserv1.fmt.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:ffff::1279]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 032FC8FC0A for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:56:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:2464::4] (shumai.marcuscom.com [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:2464::4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n1RIwMBP040776; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:58:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: hartzell@alerce.com In-Reply-To: <18856.12732.229171.925418@almost.alerce.com> References: <18856.12732.229171.925418@almost.alerce.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-pUEcDdSkEvAtUr0qZV3v" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:57:06 -0500 Message-Id: <1235761026.3297.141.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.4 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,NO_RELAYS autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on creme-brulee.marcuscom.com Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: switching to sawfish with ports from yesterday. X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:56:50 -0000 --=-pUEcDdSkEvAtUr0qZV3v Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 10:32 -0800, George Hartzell wrote: > I've been using sawfish for a long time, the trick for enabling seems > to keep changing over the years. >=20 > I have a -STABLE system running in a VMware virtual machine with a > ports tree that was portsnap'ed within the past couple of days. I've > installed the gnome2 metaport. >=20 > On the advice of the FreeBSD Gnome FAQ, I've killed metacity and > started sawfish (so far so good), then done gnome-session-save --gui > which cases a number of messages like this: >=20 > Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".=20 >=20 > but I don't get any dialog boxes w/ errors. >=20 > After exiting and restarting gnome I still end up running metacity. >=20 > I'm starting gnome from the console using startx and a .xinitrc that's > just >=20 > exec gnome-session >=20 > Is there a better (functional) way to get it to remember the change? You started this thread a while ago, and you already found a working solution. See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2009-January/021509.html f= or your original thread, and http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq224.html#= q4 for details on the known session bug. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-pUEcDdSkEvAtUr0qZV3v Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkmoN3cACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4deoQCcCyq8XmHf22i8+56S5Ol7utEO N9YAmwZacbR9V+G2nxgG7EVdfKqlsx2W =erlq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-pUEcDdSkEvAtUr0qZV3v--